On a given day, cab drivers can turn out to be the creepiest beings you will ever come across. Be it for a scary face or a curious gaze, eerie conversations or drunken acts, many of us have come across genuinely uncomfortable situations in a cab.
And this brings us to a man’s narration of his experience in a taxi, which has all the ingredients to freak you out.
Taking to Reddit, the man unfolded his discussion with a Chinese Taxi driver, which started pretty normally with the two of them discovering that they own the same Samsung mobile phone. However, it followed by the driver asking for a little help with the videos on his handset which could not be played anymore.
“About half an hour past midnight, I took a cab home, a 15-minute ride at most.
The taxi driver was an elderly Chinese man, and he started asking me the usual questions like what I do for a living and where I’m from.
He eventually mentioned that he bought this new Samsung phone recently.
I told him that I had the same phone and he immediately asked if I could help him with a problem he’s been having.
Specifically, he installed his old SD card to his new phone, but some of the videos in the card can’t be played anymore and some can only be played until a certain point and then stop.”
Thinking that the old guy is finding it hard to cope up with the advancement in technology, the man decided to help him out.
I immediately thought that it was probably caused by a corrupt or damaged SD card (he did mention that it was a very old card) and told him to replace it when he gets a chance.
He asked if I could have a look at it anyway, and I agreed, thinking that I’m being helpful to an old man who’s struggling with new technology.
He stopped the taxi on the driveway of my apartment, right in front of the entrance and handed me his phone.
The first thing I noticed was that the touchscreen was not very responsive.
I immediately showed him how to increase the sensitivity setting of the touchscreen to accommodate for having a screen protector and he was so thankful and it made me feel good that I helped improve this old man’s life to some small extent.
That feeling didn’t last long, though.
After he fixed the phone’s touchscreen sensitivity, the driver made him go through the videos he was having a problem with. It was then that the man found out that the phone carried indecent pictures of a young woman.
He then started to show me where the broken videos are by opening his google photos app.
I tried my best not to pry on this old man’s private life, but as he scrolled through the app, I started to get this sinking feeling.
I noticed that he had a lot of photos of this young woman, who I assumed was his daughter at first… until I realised that a lot of them are racy pictures.
But what the man discovered next was shocking. The driver opened a video which had him standing butt-naked in front of the camera. In the background, there was a bed and on top of it lied this young woman whose pictures were in the phone! It took no time for the man to understand that he was actually helping the driver in recovering his sex video.
“I tried to remain positive by thinking that it’s good that he’s still able to enjoy camgirls at that age.
He eventually got to the videos he mentioned earlier and handed me his phone.
I tried to open the videos and indeed, they seem to be broken as the phone just goes greyscreen when I try to open them.
He then told me to check the video that seemed okay when it starts playing but stops at some point.
He opened the first video from that day and moved the time slider to about halfway through the video to a shot of him walking past the camera… butt-naked.
The shot started with his butt right in front of the camera, so close that I could see the wrinkles on them.
And to top it off, after his butt left the frame, I saw that behind him was a bed, with the woman in the pictures earlier lying on top of it.”
Hold on. There was more creepiness to follow. Though the man handed him the phone immediately was about to leave, the driver offered him a business card as he was in search of tenants for his apartment. He even asked the man to give a ring on his phone number so that they could chat over a coffee whenever he is in the area!
“He did genuinely sound thankful for my advice, and I was about to leave when he asked if I could take his business card, as he was looking for tenants for his apartment and maybe I could refer his place to some of my friends.
Desperate to end this very awkward situation I just agreed and took his card.
Glad that this whole situation was finally over, I was about to leave once again when he asked if he could also get my number in case he was in the area we could grab a coffee outside.
I was going to give him a fake number, but he then told me to just call his phone since I already had his card.
Not knowing what else to do, I begrudgingly dialed his number. After another round of goodbyes, I got inside the building as fast as I could and washed my hands immediately.”
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TIFU by helping an elderly taxi driver with his new phone from tifu
I can totally imagine the amount of abnormality in that situation. Holy crap!